Keyword Verification Frequently Asked Questions

• I submitted my website to some or all of these search engines and directories. Why am I not listed?
• Why over the past few months has the keyword verifier reduced from 30 to 12 search engines?
• I have run all of the available reports in a two week period and am wondering how it is possible that our keywords were showing they were placed during the first report and not on the second report?
• I have recently resubmitted our site to the major search engines, will this have caused a temporary decrease in placement?

Q: I submitted my website to some or all of these search engines and directories. Why am I not listed?
A: Make sure you are using a keyword / keyword phrase that is unique to your site in order to verify inclusion.
A: Many search engines and directories can take at least 2-8 weeks to update their listings. Check back later.
A: Your website may not be relevant to the directory or search engine and was therefore denied a listing for content reasons.
A: Your content and/or methods of site submission were identified by the search engine as "spam" (abusive content and/or methods).
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Q: Why over the past few months has the keyword verifier reduced from 30 to 12 search engines?

A: When we first launched the verification tool, there many more good search engines. Unfortunately, they keep disappearing, or they lose their audience to some of the older engines.

Over the past few months, we have "cleaned house" and removed some of the engines that were slow, unreliable, out-of-business, not of high quality, or received their results from the same source.

Removing some of these lower quality engines recently, like Claymont.com, Northern Light, and several others results in faster results for our users.

It also saves bandwidth, as our user base is growing at an incredible rate. The traffic to and from these lower quality engines eats up a good portion of our bandwidth which can have a negative impact on our tools both in speed and quality of the results.
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Q: I have run all of the available reports in a two week period and am wondering how it is possible that our keywords were showing they were placed during the first report and not on the second report?

A: Keyword Verification values constantly change due to the dynamic nature of the Web. As such, the values reported by Marketleap for your site(s) are collected live each time a request is made. To ensure the accuracy of results, be sure to click through to the corresponding search engine.
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Q: I have recently resubmitted our site to the major search engines, will this have caused a temporary decrease in placement?

A: There are several possibilities for the situation you described. First, it is important to keep in mind that our Verification tool only looks at the first 3 pages of search results from each engine. Second, the engines are constantly re-indexing, meaning that your placement may vary from day to day, or even search to search. Your placement may be on page 3 for one search, and page 4 for the next.

Also, there is a lot of competition for placement within the first 3 pages of results for popular terms such as "baby shoes", "infant shoes", and "toddler shoes", so your placement may be fluctuating due to competing sites that are similar to yours.

Our tool reports placement based on the results received from the search engines. You would need to contact the search engines directly for more specific reasons as to why the search results may fluctuate.
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